THE CHRONICLE OF PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND
The Adventures — The Events — The Holy Sites
By D. Salomon and Y. Salomon
RMC Publishing. 256 pages. £39.75
ISBN 978-965-7240-00-7
http://www.thechroniclebook.com
This is a cleverly devised and fascinating book about what happened to Jerusalem after Jesus’s birth and up to the present.
Shaped like an atlas and packed with nearly 1,000 maps, illustrations and photographs, each page is clearly dated above well-defined ‘boxes’, sometimes four or five to a page, and all of them headed by catchy titles to imitate newspaper headlines. So, during Jesus’s ministry in the first chapter we have ‘A miraculous wedding in Cana’ and ‘Demoniac’s Wits Return: Pigs Jump To Their Deaths’ — and in 1815 (to cite just a couple of examples from thousands throughout the text) ‘Princess of Wales Visits Holy Land’ and ‘Lady Stanhope’s Treasure Hunt’!
